- Quick specs
- Price: Free to try (40-day trial); $29.99 to buy
- Operating system: Windows XP, Windows 2000
- Date added: September 21, 2006
- Total Downloads: 2,464,025
- Downloads last week: 2,005
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A newer version of Ashampoo AntiSpyWare is available.
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 616 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
Ashampoo Antispyware has been given a major-point upgrade, and there's no doubt that it looks better. But is version 2 worth the $30 tag?
The program has a bothersome registration process required for downloading, something that's unfortunately becoming more common these days. However, it also has a generous 40-day trial period. The tabbed interface looks good and is clearly labeled, making navigation intuitive. The main window shows you Active functions, and one click lets you Deactivate them. The right-side column contains scan Statistics, spyware-signature file version and a link to updates, and quick links to run all the major scans.
The left-side tabs manage the Scans, Quarantine, Logs, Preferences, and Tools. There are a host of features in the last two, from whitelists and schedulers to an Internet tracks cleaner and an LSP Viewer to help manage WinSock extensions. Scan options include a full system scan--prepare for a long wait--as well as options to slice that into specific types of scans such as hard drive or Registry-only. We encountered zero problems when mucking about. No viruses were found, either.
However, there've been numerous false positive complaints, and scans detect all of your Internet cookies as minor threats. Still, Ashampoo Antispyware is a breeze to handle and has most of the antispyware angles covered.
Publisher's description
From Ashampoo :Ashampoo AntiSpyWare protects you against more than 500,000 security threats. Ashampoo AntiSpyWare can monitor and protect your computer continuously. A small background program checks every suspicious file for potential hazards before it is opened, making it impossible for Trojans to install themselves on your computer. Ashampoo AntiSpyWare is a brand-new tool. Building on existing solutions combined with intelligent new strategies and algorithms it provides exceptional protection against spyware and other malware. Its advanced heuristic search and analysis system can actually identify and block new and unknown threats before they can do any damage. It can even detect the highly dangerous Rootkits.
Version 1.50 detects more than 500,000 threats, features improvements to the license server and much better AntiSpyWare Guard. The "Tools" menu now contains the task planner in all languages.
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User reviews of Ashampoo AntiSpyWare 1.50
- Average user rating: 3.7 stars out of 616 votes
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12 out of 17 people found this review helpful
Version: Ashampoo AntiSpyWare 1.50
Pros: Nice interface.Its a case of set and forget.I run a scan daily with Ashampoo and most days it finds nothing, or should I say it has stopped spyware.Then I run another scan with Ad-aware(back up),and again the all clear.I find it stable and uses up less ram than most.The scans are really fast.A full Ashampoo scan yesterday was 23 minutes.I have tried them all and this one is up there in the top 3.
Cons: None to date.
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14 out of 22 people found this review helpful
Version: Ashampoo AntiSpyWare 1.50
Pros: This antispyware is really good.Excellent detection of spyware and adware and its very deep and thorough.Realtime protection does its job.The interface is simple and easy to use.Daily spyware updates.
Cons: Scanning takes too long and the realtime protection can be easily disabled.
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3 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Version: Ashampoo AntiSpyWare 1.50
"despite a slow scanning engine..."
Pros: the addtional tools included work far more better than the scanning tools. there is a rootkit detector (very very useful) and protects you from trojans.
Cons: the scanning engine is quite slow when scanning files. It can't scan mozilla firefox cookies either in the full system scan. but, in internet cleaner, it can clean it up.
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16 out of 24 people found this review helpful
Version: Ashampoo AntiSpyWare 1.50
Pros: It picked up some regular viruses that I hadn't picked up with other anti-virus programs, as well as other spyware programs
Cons: Overzealous on the cookies! It pretty much says they're all bad, and doesn't give you enough info to pick out the ones that you want to keep, as you know they're good.
It's also painfully slow. I thought AdAware was a bit slow, but this one was going for close to two hours before it was near the end (and I cancelled it anyway)
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14 out of 17 people found this review helpful
Version: Ashampoo AntiSpyWare 1.50
Pros: Very good app, over 500,000 definitions, found a trojan ad-aware and spyware doctor missed, 40 day trial.
Cons: kinda slow scanning, guard sometimes doesnt start on startup
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